Svetlana Navasardyan dedicates her solo concert to her parents
After the “Oscar” awards, one of the indelible impressions was when the winners first of all were express their gratitude to their parents.
Like in the world, so as in our country, the artists dedicate separate concerts to their parents. Once, Vladimir Spivakov gave a solo concert in Yerevan on the occasion of his father-in-law, renowned violinist and conductor Zareh Sahakyants’s anniversary. Pianist Svetlana Navasardyan, years ago, gave a concert for the anniversary of her mother’s death. The renowned pianist invites us to a solo concert at “Aram Khachatryan” concert hall on November 18, entitled “Dedicated to my parents”, on the occasion of her father’s 100th and mother’s 95th birth anniversaries. The program includes Haydn, Brahms, and Chopin.
We present the artist’s words without the media interference, “The memories about my parents always take me back to my childhood in Alaverdi, where I heard the music for me. I heard it in the silence of Lori gorges and the murmur of Debed river, in the tints of the flowery hillside and in my mother’s divine singing. For me, Alaverdi of my childhood remained the center of the world, distinguished by our sweet-smelling house among the scanty houses and “mysterious” Department of People’s Education, where my father was working day and night, by “Spandaryan” School where my mother was teaching, and by the music school hidden in a corner of a forgotten city, where the piano first time responded to the touch of my fingers. Here, my dreams took wings and my parents remained faithful to it to the end.
We had a huge library in Alaverdi that was collected by my father, Hovhannes Navasardyan, a historian by specialty and a bright and virtuous man, whose borderless kindness and crystal purity exploded myths. He was one of the broad-minded, comprehensively developed and endowed with bright organizational talent and an active supporter of education in the republic, one of the honest devotees. In the post-war difficult years, he was the head of the People’s Education Department in Alaverdi and Noyemberyan regions, and later, in Shahumyan region, he was the founding director of the Yerevan School No. 102. He was always friendly, smiling, gentle humor, and was loved by everyone.
My mother, Hranush Petrosyan, was a well-known pedagogue and mathematician. She knew the subject brilliantly and was extremely demanding, as well as fair. She used to grow flowers in her math cabinet, was preparing miraculous geometric figures from the wire that probably are still preserved in Alaverdi and Yerevan No. 118 schools where she was teaching. She was an artistic vivid personality with numerous talents. As they say, “Everything she was touching was prospering.”
She was also a professional singer, Royal lyrics-drama soprano, incredible beauty and an amazing power of penetration… My mother’s voice and her singing became my “first musical universities” and, certainly, in my formation and development as an artist, my mother’s role hardly be overstated. My parents were beauty-fascinated and festive people, adorable people, for whom the name and reputation were just the modest companions of the performed work, and whose moral principles, in spite of everything, remained undefeated…”
Samvel DANIELYAN
P.S. The concert program, based on the pianist’s words, characterize her parents just as Vladimir Spivakov’s selected pieces of works to Zareh Ter-Sahakyants.
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